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The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour
Oct. 25, 2020 - Oct. 25, 2020 (read)

Seymour, R. (2020). The Twittering Machine. Verso.


Verso, 2020. 256 pages. Hardcover. 9781788739283

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acedia »
(Greek) spiritual or mental sloth; apathy; a stat…
p.152
theodicy »
(noun) defense of God's goodness and omnipotence …
p.149
limn »
(verb) depict or describe in painting or words; s…
p.126
louche »
disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing w…
p.100
lapidary »
relating to stone and gems and the work involved …
p.212
a society that is busily producing horrors
And this is where the story is not just about cor…
p.173
a post-democratic society
Post-democracy was well advanced in most of Europ…
p.101
we may find it helpful to forget ourselves
There is death in this. Twenge and Campbell are g…
p.61
a fantasy in which meaning is replaced by techniq…
The most important problem with teaching machines…
p.55
the context for soaring addiction rates
But as the cyberpunk writer Bruce Sterling points…